The Price of Time

Some people have a Guardian Angel. Others aren’t so lucky and have a Guardian Devil.Late one evening Verity Player comes face-to-face with evil genius Stan ‘Satanic’ Mills, mastermind of the mechanism behind humanity’s apparent death wish. She’s the only mortal who can stop his plan before its final phase, but her struggle pitches her into a surreal game, with her precious conscience at stake. More

Some people have a Guardian Angel. Others aren’t so lucky and have a Guardian Devil.

Late one autumn evening Yorkshirewoman and lifelong green campaigner Verity Player comes face-to-face with Lancastrian evil genius Stan ‘Satanic’ Mills, who has been stalking her for over half her life.

As soon as he speaks, she recognises him from an incident in her youth. He’s the mastermind behind the spread of an idea so simple — and so fundamental to everyday life — that few people would think to question it.

But Verity has long ago grasped its infernal logic. She knows it as the mechanism that lurks behind humanity’s apparent death wish. And now, facing its creator, she’s the only mortal who can fight to make him halt it before its final, devastating phase.

Her struggle pitches her into a surreal game. Desperate, she bargains for a sporting chance. But this comes at a price: the forfeit of her precious conscience if she fails to strike the first blow by New Year.

C.L. Spillard is a complex interplay of matter and energy in a pattern of waves whose probability cloud is densest in York, United Kingdom.

Following the profound influence, in a mysterious process not yet fully understood by science, of the American moon landings on the young pattern’s quantum-based self-awareness mechanisms, C.L. Spillard developed an interest in Space, and the plight of humanity on our small, blue spheroid. This led both to a lifelong career in Physics and a penchant for environmental activism.C.L. Spillard’s wave-pattern enjoys proximity to a second pattern originating in St Petersburg (Russia), and these two have since generated two younger ones who are now diffusing over the planet stuffing themselves with knowledge as if it were going out of fashion.

C.L. Spillard claims full responsibility for several published short stories, two factual articles on Dan Koboldt’s ‘Science in SF’ site and the metaphysical fantasy ‘The Price of Time’.